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Installing rear winch. What are these wires????

DocSpook

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Got the roof winch in the purchase deal with the Mountain Edition.
First off, Polaris does not write the best instructions. Take off one bracket and two screws they say. 4 brackets and 4 screws later finally got the roof pried up enough. Had to loosen and rotate the upper rear window brackets to get the ceiling panel out, instructions didn’t say anything about that but I saw no other way.
Second, the headache rack was not welded/drilled straight, had to angle bore the top two bolt holes so all four bolts would thread.
Third, dealer included a whole rear bus bar kit which was not needed as there are two open slots already, thought they would know that.

With the ceiling panel off found wires on each side but don’t know what they are for ?
 

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I had the same problem with the headache rack... unfortunately, it seems like if you measure diagonally from hole to hole, it seems to be square. There have been reports of the ROPS being the root cause. So, most of us just live with it rather than have the dealer do an extensive tear-down. I also agree that in many cases, their instructions are absolute garbage!

Those additional wires/connectors are for rear speakers if you choose to add them.
 
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Looks good though.
Extra wire spliced off rear light gonna activate relay for extra rear lights.
 

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I had the same problem with the headache rack... unfortunately, it seems like if you measure diagonally from hole to hole, it seems to be square. There have been reports of the ROPS being the root cause. So, most of us just live with it rather than have the dealer do an extensive tear-down. I also agree that in many cases, their instructions are absolute garbage!

Those additional wires/connectors are for rear speakers if you choose to add them.
Rear Speakers! Awesome! Thanks!

So this wierd dead end fuse in the middle of the ceiling is for them?
 

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